Do soulmates exist?

The thought of there being one human out there, perfectly suited to one of each of us, seems unfathomable. What if we have more than one soulmate? More than one energy which we harmonise with? Could it be that some of us are simply luckier than others in finding our soul-mate/s? Or does courage play a big factor in accepting our soul-mate. Is there even such thing as a soul-mate? The term soul-mate holds a romantic stigmatisation to it, as the oxford dictionary defines it as; “someone, usually your romantic or sexual partner, who you have a special relationship with, and who you know and love very much”. But what if a soulmate is someone with whom you find yourself harmonising with effortlessly and not necessarily romantically. American philosopher Ralph Emerson (1841) dabbled on this theory, conceptualising soul-mates as the nature of friendship, in terms of “chemical affinity”. The key to finding this great friendship is conversation and the practice and consummation of a friendship is in the art of conversing with one another. It is when we find ourselves indulged in great conversation with another that we are combining two souls into one; exposing a soul-mate. If we want to understand soul-mates in a more romantic perception, we must ask ourselves if there truly is one soul out there to complete us, is there a possibility that there are many, if any at all? The “split soul theory” of a soul-mate dates back to the Egyptian-Greek religio-mythology, based on the origin of humans. Explaining how we originated as pairs in one body, with one original soul, but were “split” in two for doing something offensive to the gods. Thus leaving us separated forever, wandering the Earth in search for our long lost soulmate to reunite our incomplete souls in order to become one again. This story dates back to the Book of the Dead (2000 BC) where the Heliopolis creation myth illustrates the model of the two gods, Shu and Tefnut, their god souls which derived from one god, Atum, and his one god soul. German philosopher, Johann Goethe came up with a similarly abstract theory much later on (1813), called the headache logic. When one person has a headache on the right-side of their head and another on the left side, it Implies that they were once attached as one entity, then split in two, thereafter finding each other as souls-mates. Simple right?… Goethe’s theory derived from Plato’s split soul or soul mate theory; where Plato believed “our ancestors once had two heads, four arms” and therefore one soul. In doing something to offend a god, they were punished and split in two, resulting in the creation of us humans. The real punishment however, was not being split in two, but instead the continuous search for our other half, otherwise known as our soulmate. A more modernised theory of soul-mates is a theory known as “free energy change”, which works in the same way that atoms, molecules, and chemicals are matched. The overall concept is that we all have a given free energy of formation and when we match with another person, we create a corresponding free energy formation of that bonded entity. This energy determines whether or not the pair could work together (be feasible). The greater the negative free energy change of the pairing, the more likely it is that the pair experience what Plato conceptualised as a “soul mate”, today known as “finding true love”. In other words, a soul-mate would be someone you create positive energy with (in all senses). The free flow of energy on this planet is something we still cannot fully grasp, being immaterial and in constant change. Is there an overpowering energy embroidered within each of us, tying us together as one entity and maybe even one soul? If energy is the substance which guides us to find our so called “soul-mate”, can it plausible that we have multiple soul-mates? If the soul does indeed creates this negative free energy change when meeting another compatible soul, we must surely be able to feel it with multiple souls, thus creating slightly differing energies in each person we encounter. The question then becomes not “do we have a soul-mate”, but instead “how do we know which soul (energy) is best suited for us”?